14 Superhero Video Game Sequels We Desperately Need

How has there not been a Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3? HOW?!

marvel ultimate alliance 3
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Captain America: Civil War is currently revving its ion thrusters and prepping to blow the global populace away come April 29th, so if there was ever a week to sit back and breathe in all things Marvel, it's this one.

More to the point, where the hell are all the video games? The House of M is positively killing it on the big screen with the MCU, leaving DC's comparative universe in the dust, yet as far as any digitaltie-insare concerned, we've got... a handful of mobileapps.

Perhaps it's down to howconsistent they turn around theircinematic output, beinga developer would have to be given the appropriate assets years in advance - risking leaks and whatnot - only to rush the final stages of production in an effort to match a unified launch.It didn't used to be this way, and we did get a pretty cool Captain America game alongside naff Thor and Iron Man ones back when Phase 1 started,but whatever the reason right now, it's a damn shame.

All that said, we've had some absolutely fantastic Marvel games in the past - of which I ranked over here - and manyare just begging to receive thesequeland/or reboot treatment...

14. The Punisher 2

The Punisher 2006 game
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What better time to capitalise on one of the most interesting and polarising characters in Marvel history, thanto leap-frog off the unanimous praise surrounding Jon Bernthal's portrayal in Daredevil season 2?

Rarely done justice in the movie realm, Bernthal look a huge amount of influence from Garth Ennis' landmark run across the 2000s, showing a broken manhellbent on vengeance, completely losing himself to that motivation and even starting to develop a sick sense of humour around it. Castle's been described as a "terrifying embodiment of the second amendment, come back to haunt us all", and the game completely revelled in that.

Granted, it was a bit too 'angry teenager' in retrospect, but doing a modern take with revamped graphics and a more considered tone (like how The Last of Uspresents violence with a gritty realism) would be fantastic.

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